Mary Berner Strikes Back at BoSacks on MPA 360 Data
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Last week we highlighted an insightful article that Bob Sacks (aka BoSacks) penned on the new magazine success metrics being used by the Association of Magazine Media (MPA). In a nutshell, the data now focuses on third-party data like unique...
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BoSacks Offers Keen Insights on the MPA 360 Numbers
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Earlier this year the Association of Magazine Media (MPA) rolled out Magazine Media 360, a new way to measure audience engagement across all channels, print and digital, based largely on social engagement. The recent numbers are out and BoSacks has...
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Monetizing the Archives of America’s Oldest Magazine Brands
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[responsive][/responsive]Publishers are becoming increasingly savvy in understanding the value of their archival content. Michael Rondon of Folio: gives a good overview of a few titles that are leveraging the past in their current business models. “As the oldest continuously published...
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20 Years of Chaos in the Retail Magazine Channel
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[responsive][/responsive]The last few years have seen some big changes in the magazine distribution channel, with newsstand sales taking a hit during the recession and some huge players getting out of Dodge. Industry insider John Harrington reminds us that this has...
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Airbnb is Launching a Print Magazine…and It Sounds Delicious
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[responsive][/responsive]Pineapples are the traditional symbols of hospitality in New England homes, and it’s fitting that the fruit is the inspiration behind the title of Airbnb’s new print magazine. “Later this week, Airbnb will release a glossy new print quarterly called...
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Print Magazine Ads Looking Sweet to More Brands
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[responsive][/responsive]In the first three quarters of this year, there were 8.9% more brands advertising in national consumer magazines than in that same period last year. “Across 177 national consumer magazines, the number of brands advertising January-September, 2014 increased by 8.9%...
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Forget the Little Shampoo Bottles: This Hotel Offers a Print Magazine
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[responsive][/responsive]They’re hip, they’re gorgeous and they don’t come cheap. We’re talking about the rooms (and quite possibly the guests) at the Standard’s properties in NYC, LA and Miami. And now, they come with a custom printed magazine based on the...
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This is NOT Your Boss’ Businessweek
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Bloomberg’s Businessweek is on a roll, thanks to a creative team that is firing on all cylinders to bring the formerly stodgy brand screaming into a new image of honest, authentic and wildly witty storytellers. “Chances are a Bloomberg Businessweek...
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Sunny Days: Sesame Workshop Bullish on Kids Magazine Market
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When Sesame Street magazine returned to print last January, the event was viewed as a positive sign in the children’s magazine category, a niche that shared the recent challenges of the industry as a whole. Fast forward almost one year,...
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UK Magazine Ad Spend Predicted to Rise in 2015
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[responsive][/responsive]Following several years of declining ad spend, the positive forecast for 2015 is welcome news to the UK magazine industry. “Advertising expenditure in magazine brands dipped 6.7% year-on-year in Q2 2014 to £254m, according to the latest data from the...
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